I’ve been waiting for Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony at The San Diego Symphony ever since it was announced last spring. The day came, Friday, May 3, and Saint-Saëns was darn near upstaged ...
From Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Eiji Oue conducts the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra in the "Corsair" Overture by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Then, from the opening concert of this year's festival, the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In 19th-century Paris, a famous actress and a scrappy composer met by chance and ...
The coming weekend's Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts — beginning Thursday, and conducted by Tugan Sokhiev — include Hector Berlioz's 1844 overture “Le Corsaire” (“The Pirate”). Berlioz wrote it ...
At 77 years of age, British conductor Sir Mark Elder is still going strong, leading the San Francisco Symphony in a stirring rendition of Hector Berlioz’ “Overture to Les francs-juges” and Richard ...
Performances in N.Y.C. The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Hector Berlioz, whose ...